Raspberry Pi Internet Radio Player

The full details of building and setting up the touch screen can be found on the adafruit website here. This must be done before trying to use the radio!

This project creates an internet streaming radio for the Raspberry Pi using the 2.8” touchscreen. This does not use the x interface and makes use of Pygame.

Step 1:

Set up the Adafruit TFT using the instructions provided by Adafruit. Make sure that all the steps are followed for calibration of the touch screen. There is no other control of the radio player other than the touch screen so if this is not done it won’t work!

Step 2:

Plug in a speaker or headphones into your audio jack. It took me nearly 5 minutes to work out my I was getting no sound when I hadn’t switched on my speakers!

Step 3:

If your Raspberry Pi is up to date you should already have the libraries for Pygame installed.